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McMuskism
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Etymology
en McCarthyism Musk, en Carole Cadwalladr 2024 1.
Noun
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political persecution achieved through surveillance and online harassment.
w:Carole Cadwalladr How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world https://web.archive.org/web/20241128063204/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump 2024-11-17 This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids, political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. It’s the dawn of a new age of political witch-hunts, where burning at the stake meets data harvesting and online mobs.
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